21º Mostra Internacional de Cinema International Perspective
LABYRINTH OF DREAMS

Japan
Labyrinth of Dreams In the suburbs of a great Japanese city young Tomiko works as a bus guide. However, she does not much like what she does. One day she starts work with a new driver: Nitaka. She is the envy of every woman in the company, for, after all, he is young and handsome.

Although she feels a certain degree of fascination for her colleague, she is suspicious of him from the first. The reason is that her best friend, Tsuyako, who had previously worked with Nitaka, had died mysteriously in an accident shortly before she was to become engaged to him. As from then, Tomiko and Nitaka are characters in a story of passion and mutual suspicion, and no one knows how it may end, in this plot inspired in a novel by Kyusaku Yumeno.

Director

DIRECTOR: Sogo Ishi
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Norimichi Kasamatsu
MUSIC: Hiroyuki Onodera
CAST: Rena Komine, Tadanobu Osano, Kotomi Kyono, Kirika Mano, Tomoka Kurutani, Reiko Matuo, Takeshi Ikeda
PRODUCER: Atsuyuki Shimoda e Satoshi Kanno
PRODUCTION: KSS Films Inc.
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WORLD SALES: KSS Films Inc.

1-21-1 Nishigotanda - Shinagawa-Ku J-Tóquio 141

Tel: 00 81 3 5434-5243 Fax: 00 81 3 5434-8803

ORIGINAL TITLE: Labyrinth of Dreams
   Col., 90 min., 1996



Sogo Ishi was born in 1957 in Fukuoka in Japan. Even as a student at Nippon University, she started her own film company: Kyoeisha. At the age of 21, she directed Panic in High School (1978). She became one of the most popular filmmakers in Japan directing action films such as Crazy Thunder Road (1980), Crazy Family

(1984), Angel Dust (1994), and August in The Water (1995).